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girl power
Many high-profile women share a passion for golf and a desire to
encourage other women and girls to get involved in the sport.
For them, the game presents a competitive challenge, a social
network, great exercise and an opportunity to spend quality time
outdoors with family and friends. Paul Prendergast reports.
By Paul Prendergast Photography by Getty Images
N
etballer Sharelle McMahon’s
roots in the game of golf run
deep. The nation’s second-
highest-capped netballer is
connected to the game by birth and marriage.
McMahon’s introduction to the game
came via a well-worn rite of passage for
many, running amok as a child around the
local club at Bamawm in country Victoria
while her parents were out playing.
“Mum and Dad played every Sunday
and everyone who played used to bring
their kids down,” McMahon said.
“We would just terrorise the clubhouse
and then we’d go out and play a few
holes when they finished. We used to
spend hours and hours there.”
For McMahon and sister Kate, the time on
the sand-scrape greens at Bamawm endeared
both to the game over the longer term. While
Sharelle’s sporting pathway took her to the very
heights of netball, Kate became an outstanding
golfer and is a scratch marker in Ballarat,
recently breaking the course record at the club.
A veteran of 118 Tests, McMahon retired from
netball at the end of the 2013 season and gave
Girl Power
Women Share PaSSion for Game